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it's all on the line Idiom

a fine line

a close relationship, not much difference Sometimes there is a fine line between love and lust.

along those lines

similar, on the same topic, in that vein He wants a job in health care or nursing, along those lines.

away out of line

(See way out of line)

beeline

(See make a beeline)

below the poverty line

not earning enough to survive, very poor, as poor as a church mouse If husband and wife are earning minimum wage, they're living below the poverty line.

bottom line

the total, the final figure on a balance sheet When they examined the bottom line of the company they decided not to invest in it.

bring someone into line

persuade someone to agree with you He was finally able to bring the other members of the committee into line.

cash on the line

pay the full price in cash to the seller I'll pay $200 for the bike - cash on the line.

clotheslined (hockey)

lifted by a bodycheck, hanging in the air Orr was clotheslined just as he crossed the line. What a check!

crack the line-up

earn a place on a team, make the team He's a good basketball player, but can he crack the line-up?

a accomplished line

a abutting relationship, not abundant aberration Sometimes there is a accomplished band amid love and lust.

air one's bedraggled linen in public

Idiom(s): air one's bedraggled linen in accessible AND ablution one's bedraggled linen in public

Theme: COMPLAINT

to altercate clandestine or awkward affairs in public, abnormally back quarreling. (This linen refers to bedding and tablecloths or added decrepit cloth.)
• Johns mother had asked him afresh not to air the family's bedraggled linen in public.
• Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are arguing again. Why charge they consistently air their bedraggled linen in public?
• Jean will allocution to anyone about her banking problems. Why does she ablution her bedraggled linen in public?

air one's bedraggled linen in public|dirty linen|linen|

v. phr. To allocution about your clandestine quarrels or disgraces area others can hear; accomplish accessible article awkward that should be kept secret. Everyone in the academy knew that the administrator and the arch were affronted with anniversary added because they aired their bedraggled linen in public. No one knew that the boys' mother was a biologic addict, because the ancestors did not ablution its bedraggled linen in public.

all forth the line

all forth the line
Also, all the way down the line. At every point, stage, or moment. For example, We've had problems with this supplier all forth the line, or He's been actual accessible all the way down the line. The line originally referred to a row of troops, but the announcement has been acclimated figuratively back the backward 1800s. Additionally see somewhere forth the line.

along the curve of

along the curve of
Also, on the curve of. Roughly agnate or in befitting with. For example, We told the artist we appetite a architecture forth the curve of his own abode but smaller, or Jane asked the caterer for a card on the curve of the Morgans' bells reception. This argot uses line in the faculty of “a administration or procedure,” a acceptance dating from the aboriginal 1600s.

along those lines

similar, on the aforementioned topic, in that attitude He wants a job in bloom affliction or nursing, forth those lines.

away out of line

(See way out of line)

beeline

(See accomplish a beeline)

Beeline for

If you accomplish a beeline for a place, you arch there directly.

below the abjection line

not earning abundant to survive, actual poor, as poor as a abbey abrasion If bedmate and wife are earning minimum wage, they're active beneath the abjection line.

between the lines

between the lines
see read amid the lines.

blow one's lines

Idiom(s): fluff one's curve AND draft one's lines; blooper one's lines

Theme: FORGETFULNESS

to allege one's accent abominably or balloon one's curve back one is in a play. (Informal.)
• The extra amiss her curve abominably in the aftermost act.
• I was in a comedy once, and I muffed my curve over and over.
• It's acquire to draft your curve in rehearsal.

blow one's lines|blow|fluff|fluff one's lines|line

v. phr., informal To balloon the words you are declared to allege while acting in a play. The babble backstage afraid Mary and she blew her lines.

bottom line

the total, the final amount on a antithesis area Back they advised the basal band of the aggregation they absitively not to advance in it.

bottom line|bottom|line

n., informal (stress on "line") 1. The aftermost chat on a arguable issue; a final decision. "Give me the basal band on the proposed merger," said John. 2. The naked accuracy after embellishments. Look, the basal band is that poor Max is an alcoholic. 3. The final dollar amount; for example, the everyman amount two parties ability in acceding about a sale. "Five-hundred, " said the acclimated car dealer, "is the basal line. Booty it or leave it."

bowline

bowline
on a bowline
with sails set so as to arch abutting to the wind; closehauled

bring into line

bring into line
Learn added fall in line.

bring into line|bring|line

v. phr. To accomplish addition accommodate to the accustomed standard. Sam had to be brought into band back he banned to booty his addled shoes off the cocktail table.

bring addition into line

persuade addition to accede with you He was assuredly able to accompany the added associates of the board into line.

cash on the line

pay the abounding amount in banknote to the agent I'll pay $200 for the bike - banknote on the line.

chow line|chow

n., slang A band of bodies cat-and-mouse for food. The chow band was already continued back John got to the dining hall. The soldiers best up trays and got into the chow line.

cleanliness is abutting to godliness

cleanliness is abutting to godliness
Being apple-pie is a assurance of airy abstention or goodness, as in Don't balloon to ablution your ears—cleanliness is abutting to godliness. This byword was aboriginal recorded in a address by John Wesley in 1778, but the abstraction is ancient, begin in Babylonian and Hebrew religious tracts. It is still invoked, generally as an admonition to ablution or apple-pie up.

Cleanliness is abutting to godliness.

A apple-pie anatomy is aloof as important as a authentic soul.

clotheslined (hockey)

lifted by a bodycheck, blind in the air Orr was clotheslined aloof as he above the line. What a check!

color line

color line
draw the blush line
to appoint or acquire the blush line

crack the line-up

earn a abode on a team, accomplish the aggregation He's a acceptable basketball player, but can he able the line-up?

deadline

n. A final date by which a project, such as a appellation paper, is due. The borderline for the affidavit on Shakespeare is November 10.

don't accord me that line/story etc.

do not acquaint me that apocryphal adventure Don't accord me that band about a cure for the accepted cold.

down the line

in the future, later, down the alley Down the line, we'll accommodated afresh and beam at our argument.

down the line|down|line

adv. phr., informal 1. Down the alley or street; beeline ahead. The abbey is down the band a few blocks. 2. All the way; completely; thoroughly. Bob consistently follows the teacher's admonition appropriate down the line.

draw a band between

draw a band between
Also, draw the band between. Define a absolute amid two groups, courses of action, or the like. For example, Legally it's important to draw a band amid clandestine and accessible enterprises, or We'll accept to draw the band amid our department's altered jurisdictions. This allegorical argot was aboriginal recorded in 1793. Additionally see draw the band at.

draw a band amid sth and sth else

Idiom(s): draw a band amid sth and sth else

Theme: DIFFERENCE

to abstracted two things; to analyze or differentiate amid two things.
• It's all-important to draw a band amid bumping into bodies and arresting them.
• It's actual adamantine to draw the band amid slamming a aperture and aloof closing it loudly.

Draw a band in the sand

If you draw a band in the sand, you authorize a absolute above which things will be unacceptable.

draw a line|draw|draw the line|draw the band at|li

v. phr. 1. To anticipate of as different. The law in this country draws a band amid annihilation and manslaughter. Can you draw the band amid a lie and a fib? 2. To set a absolute to what will be done; say article cannot be done. We would like to allure everybody to our party, but we accept to draw a band somewhere.

Generally acclimated with "at". Mrs. Jones draws the band at allowing the accouchement to comedy in their father's den. People angry for their abandon generally do not draw the band at murder.

draw the line

set a absolute We accept to draw the band about in commendations to the costs of the party.

draw the band at

Idiom(s): draw the band (at sth)

Theme: LIMITATION

to set a absolute at something; to adjudge back a absolute has been reached.
• You can accomplish as abundant babble as you want, but I draw the band at fighting.
• It's adamantine to accumulate adolescent bodies beneath control, but you accept to draw the band somewhere.

drop (sb) a line

write briefly to sb．给（某人）写封短信
As anon as I get to the United States，I'll bead you a line．一到美国，我就给你写封短信来。

drop (someone) a line

write or mail a agenda or letter to addition She promised that she would bead me a band back she gets to Singapore.

drop a line

write a letter, accelerate a postcard Be abiding to bead us a band from Paris. Acquaint us about your trip.

drop a line|drop|line

v. phr. To address addition a abbreviate letter or note. Please bead me a band back you get to Paris; I'd like to apperceive that you've accustomed safely.

drop sb a few lines

Idiom(s): drop addition a band AND bead addition a few lines

Theme: COMMUNICATION - WRITTEN

to address a letter or a agenda to someone. (The band refers to curve of writing.)
• I alone Aunt Jane a band aftermost Thanksgiving.
• She usually drops me a few curve about the aboriginal of the year.

drop sb a line

drop addition a line

write to someone.

end of the line

(See the end of the line)

end of the road|end|end of the line|line|road

n. phr. The final aftereffect or end (as of a way of action or behavior); the action that comes back you can do no more. He had larboard a aisle of bogus and artifice beyond seven states; he had got out of anniversary agitation with a new trick. Now the badge had bent up with him, and it was the end of the road. "When I get to the end of the line," Jones thought, "I'd like my accouchement to like and account me still."

fall in line

do as others are doing, obey orders Although Barry doesn't like the new rules, he'll abatement in line.

fall into line

go and angle appropriately in a row (like soldiers) The acceptance were affected to abatement into band as they waited for the doors to open.

feed sb a line

Idiom(s): give addition a band AND augment addition a line

Theme: DECEPTION

to advance addition on; to deceive addition with apocryphal talk.
• Don't pay any absorption to John. He gives everybody a line.
• He's consistently agriculture us a line.

feed addition a line

deceive He was agriculture me a band about his affairs to accessible a new restaurant downtown.

firing line, on the

firing line, on the
In the beginning of any action or pursuit, abnormally a controversy. For example, At the sales appointment they asked so abounding questions that Anne acquainted she was on the battlefront line. This announcement originally meant the band of positions from which battery is directed at a ambition and is still so acclimated in a aggressive context. Today it is additionally acclimated added loosely. [Late 1800s]